Sentences with phrase «of utility monopolies»

In recognition of the utility monopoly and the lack of a free market, NCSEA encourages ratepayers across the state to consider the complex nature of energy policy and reject efforts to change the rules for companies and investors without considerable study of the effects to existing companies, investments and jobs in North Carolina.

Not exact matches

If a choice has to be made, I think it would be better to go with Maple — but regulators and policymakers should specify some variant of the «regulated monopoly» solution used in the utility industry.

«These jobs can be lost if you have a person who doesn't look at the future and only looks at supporting the monopolies of the utilities,» Rive said.

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.

Similarly, railroads and utilities and master limited partnerships build up large infrastructure that is either protected from competition due to having a regulated monopoly, or it simply would be self - destructive for a competitor to try to copy, like building a new set of railroad tracks right alongside a competitor that can't get enough traffic to justify its costs since there's already an established route there.

For instance, he favours nationalisation of Britain's railways and some utilities over their present near - monopoly status, harbours a visceral hatred of many Tories, and has had several conversations with Labour MPs about wooing them over to the populist Momentum - style movement that he intends to launch in the coming months.

But the utility met resistance from a coalition of liberals and libertarians decrying monopoly or wanting to help cut greenhouse gas pollution.

Utilities are protected by legal monopolies and pay some of the best dividends in the S&P 500.

However, the monopoly status of most regulated utilities has a major downside.

North Carolina has a highly - regulated, monopoly controlled electricity market where investor - owned utilities (IOUs) make most + of the decisions about where our power comes from.

The groups» filing also states that the power utility's obstruction of rooftop - solar deployment undermines the very public - interest objectives that utility monopolies were created to serve.

«The case for preserving an electric utility's monopoly over electricity generation died with federally induced wholesale competition in the late 1970s and with the recent advent of customer - owned and cost - effective rooftop solar,» said John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self - Reliance.

«We are deeply concerned about the coordinated efforts of the Salt River Project and other monopoly utilities to stifle the growth of solar energy,» said Jim Warren, executive director of NC WARN.

The vertically - integrated, monopoly utility model that prevails in the Southeast relies on ever - increasing sales, which means it doesn't require much of a change in consumer behavior to turn black ink red.

The complainant, retired Department of Justice antitrust lawyer Michael Hirrel, believes the utilities» abuse of their legitimate monopoly power violates federal antitrust laws, and he is urging the FTC to investigate.

It's worth noting that the plans of Dominion, Duke and their fellow monopoly utilities run counter to the expressed desires of their customers.

After years of watching my state government fail to meet its renewable energy targets... of watching my utility monopoly stymie the rapid deployment of renewables... of watching the public utilities commission install a torturous obstacle course of red tape in the path of rooftop solar... I'm willing to carry that rebel flag.

The concept behind utility regulation is that some services are better provided by a monopoly, but lack of competition harms the customers.

Monopoly utilities were slow to make optimal choices among central plant technologies and completely ignored the more cost - effective distributed use of the same technologies.

Seven candidates running for the West Virginia House of Delegates this year have recently signed a pledge to not take campaign donations from monopoly utilities.

Many utilities continue to undermine the spread of renewable energy, in part because it has meant a loosening of their monopoly on electricity generation.

Shocking investigative reports published late in 2017 highlight our longstanding concerns about deficient oversight of growing utility monopolies.

Because of the monopoly granted to utilities, policies like the REPS law are the closest thing we have to a free market.

With utilities hostile to any perceived incursion on their monopoly power, and solar advocates pledged to protect the rights of residents, there aren't a whole lot of opportunities for consensus here.

I do like the idea of decentralized electricity generation as the umbilical cord would no longer force people to be at the mercy of the utility companies frequent monopolies.

They are not being used today in APCo territory because of the risk that the utility will sue, claiming a violation of its monopoly on electricity sales.

Secure Futures and the university thought that even if what was really just a financing arrangement somehow fell afoul of Dominion's monopoly, surely they were covered by the exception in § 56 - 577 (A)(6) available to customers whose own utilities do not offer 100 % renewable energy.

The only problem is that regulations give utilities a monopoly over the production of electricity, making it hard for more efficient alternatives to compete.

To date all operating nuclear power plants were developed by state - owned or regulated utility monopolies [2] where many of the risks associated with construction costs, operating performance, fuel price, and other factors were borne by consumers rather than suppliers.

With COPUC approval, Xcel, the state's largest monopoly utility, plans to shift its generating portfolio from away from majority hydrocarbons (coal and natural gas) in favor of industrial wind, solar, and battery storage.

A sweeping energy law adopted last summer gave Duke more control over these large solar developments while requiring the utility — a monopoly across much of the state — to create incentives for individual customers to invest in solar panels, too.

Utilities like Dominion Energy rely on outdated monopoly laws to argue against their customers» right to free market financing of solar installations.

Restructuring: The process of replacing a monopoly system of electric utilities with competing sellers, allowing individual retail customers to choose their electricity supplier but still receive delivery over the power lines of the local utility.

And the Feed - in - Tariff is free, so utilities can offer only a few cent / kWh in area's where they have a monopoly (most of Spain).

«Thanks to much community involvement, Boulder is well on its way to cutting its ties with Xcel Energy, a Minnesota - based, monopoly utility company that generates 90 % of its electricity from fossil fuels.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

DTE, and all of Michigan's monopoly utilities, should be held to far higher standards.

Until 2013, the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electric power for public utility service purposes in Mexico was exclusively reserved to the federal government, through the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a public body of the federal government operating as a vertically integrated monopoly.

Holders of utility patents enjoy a 20 - year monopoly, whereas design patent holders only have a 14 - year monopoly.